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Doppler radar deemed ready

Jul 24, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Doppler radar deemed ready

After almost seven months of delay and additionally millions spent, the Doppler Radar Tower was finally tested and deemed ready to serve Guyana and the Caribbean. The tower will be commissioned early...

Ministry of Health Fire : US Southern Command offers assistance in investigation

Jul 24, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Ministry of Health Fire : US Southern Command offers assistance in investigation

– Dr Luncheon Head of the Presidential Secretariat yesterday confirmed to media operatives that the United States of America’s Southern Command has volunteered its services as it relates to...

NBS still to come under Central Bank’s regulation

Jul 24, 2009 knews News Comments Off on NBS still to come under Central Bank’s regulation

…legislation expected before Parliamentary recess – Dr Luncheon A senior official within the Bank of Guyana has confirmed that the bank is waiting to assume regulatory responsibility of...

City Hall prepared to publish names of defaulting tax payers

Jul 24, 2009 knews News Comments Off on City Hall prepared to publish names of defaulting tax payers

Property owners within Agricola, North Ruimveldt, Kingston, Tucville, Lacytown and Wortmanville are significantly indebted to the Georgetown municipality as it relates to the payment of rates and...

Min. Ramsammy gets emotional at World AIDS Day launch

Jul 24, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Min. Ramsammy gets emotional at World AIDS Day launch

By Fareeza Haniff. Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy was moves to tears when he recalled watching his Ministry being burnt to the ground one week ago. That destruction has left himself and...

Battered pensioner fears she could be killed by her son

Jul 24, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Battered pensioner fears she could be killed by her son

Sixty-four-year-old Hemranie Ramphere had heard the story of a woman who died following a beating at the hands of her son. She also heard about the years of abuse the woman endured also at the hands...

Guyanese cops 2nd place in CANTO Essay Competition

Jul 24, 2009 knews News Comments Off on Guyanese cops 2nd place in CANTO Essay Competition

The Caribbean Association of National Telecommunication Organisation (CANTO) held its third annual Telecommunication Information and Society Day – Essay Competition under the theme...

BIG MAN’S JOB IN LITTLE BOY’S HANDS

Jul 24, 2009 knews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on BIG MAN’S JOB IN LITTLE BOY’S HANDS

There is an old saying in Guyana. “You cannot put a little boy to do a big man’s job” What is being exposed each passing day in Guyana is the total inability of certain Ministers of the...

Mike’s Pharmacy softball cricket

Jul 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Mike’s Pharmacy softball cricket

Several teams register wins Blue Berry Hill Juniors, led by a top score of 21 from Gavin Morrison defeated Victory Valley Kings by 4 wickets, when play continued in the Under-15 category of the...

President’s X1 to play Celebrity as curtains lower on Blind Cricket competition

Jul 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on President’s X1 to play Celebrity as curtains lower on Blind Cricket competition

Administrators of the West Indies Blind Cricket Association (WICCB) will this morning bring the curtains down on just over a week of pulsating cricket action among blind cricketers, with a Twenty20...

Vieira leaving nothing to chance

Jul 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Vieira leaving nothing to chance

– expresses thanks to sponsors Reigning motor bike champion Stephen ‘Valentino Rossi’ Vieira is leaving nothing to chance leading up to Sunday’s Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club...

Netrockers take pole position with 4-0 win over Peacemakers

Jul 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Netrockers take pole position with 4-0 win over Peacemakers

Netrockers assumed the top spot on the points table with an emphatic 4-0 win over Peacemakers on Wednesday afternoon, at the Bayrock ground, as play in the Stag B-League football tournament continued...

Floodlights XI face Shatta-Ville tonight at National Park

Jul 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Floodlights XI face Shatta-Ville tonight at National Park

The Wellman Master Cup nation-wide softball competition sponsored by Mikes Pharmacy continues tonight, with Floodlights XI taking on Shatta-Ville Seniors, at the National Park Tarmac, starting...

Is this the way we get someone to plead guilty?

Jul 24, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is this the way we get someone to plead guilty?

Dear Editor, In the Thursday’s (23-07-09) Kaieteur News, the story that caught me was, “Ministry’s fire suspect…BRUTALIZED – Troy Small had to be lifted out of the Alberttown Police...

Power Stout Inter-Market tourney starts on Monday

Jul 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Power Stout Inter-Market tourney starts on Monday

Intense action expected at Thirst Park By Michael Benjamin After a three-year hiatus, the Inter-Market football competition is set to kick off at the Banks DIH, Thirst Park ground, with the opening...

Smalta to sponsor 1st ‘Teach Them Young’ cycling meet

Jul 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Smalta to sponsor 1st ‘Teach Them Young’ cycling meet

11 races to be contested The 32-riders currently participating in the 33rd Annual National Sports Commission (NSC) ‘Teach Them Young’ 8-week cycling clinic will have the opportunity to test what...

Everybody pumping and nuff money flowing

Jul 24, 2009 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Everybody pumping and nuff money flowing

Guyana is de land of many waters and dem have nuff people who can swim but unless dem join a club, dem have to swim in de Blacka or in dem trench or in de river or in de sea. Well that dangerous suh...

Low level, self-serving corruption is endemic and accepted at many levels in Guyana

Jul 24, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Low level, self-serving corruption is endemic and accepted at many levels in Guyana

Dear Editor, The story which follows is one, which as a Guyanese living abroad, I have heard too may times before. After my father Judaman Seecoomar died in 2006, his collection of academic books,...

Deadly trap, permanent prison

Jul 24, 2009 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on Deadly trap, permanent prison

I hardly get time to look at television. The internet may kill television for those who follow world events. You miss something that the newscast carries and you can still get it on video on the...

Canawaima Ferry Service seeks to boost travel

Jul 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Canawaima Ferry Service seeks to boost travel

The Canawaima Ferry Service which transports passengers from Moleson Creek across the border to Suriname is looking to boost passenger travel. Over the years, the service has faced competition from...

Can we help our poor minibus operators?

Jul 24, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Can we help our poor minibus operators?

Dear Editor, I think it is time that minibus owners, start paying for the damages to road and loss of life in this country, and the degradation of morals in our society to say the least. The duty...

Sex threat irks miner, lands him in jail

Jul 24, 2009 KNews News Comments Off on Sex threat irks miner, lands him in jail

A 35-year-old miner was yesterday remanded by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, at the Georgetown Magistrates Court. It was alleged that Delroy Thompson, of Port Kaituma Canal Bank, on July...

Guyana lose to Barbados by 9 wickets

Jul 24, 2009 KNews Sports Comments Off on Guyana lose to Barbados by 9 wickets

Guyana’s Under-19 cricketers suffered their second defeat of the TCL Regional 3-day cricket competition, losing to Barbados by 9 wickets in their 4th round encounter played at Jamalco, in Jamaica....

UN Expert’s Minority Report seriously flawed

Jul 24, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on UN Expert’s Minority Report seriously flawed

Dear Editor, While I must congratulate The United Nations Expert on Minorities Gay McDougall on her recently released report on race relation in Guyana I would like to point out to the United Nations...

Officials could lessen carbon emission by reducing their flights

Jul 24, 2009 KNews Letters Comments Off on Officials could lessen carbon emission by reducing their flights

Dear Editor, I opened my telephone bill yesterday (22-07-09) and was startled to find enclosed therewith a letter dated 25th June, 2009 on the letterhead of the Office of the President and signed by...

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Runsfest ends in draw, as arch rivals play hearts out

The mirage of citizen investment

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- The latest song and dance from the corridors of political power in Guyana comes wrapped... more